Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 31 January 2013.
Caroline Flint
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
9:30,
31 January 2013
The Government have claimed that the new energy company obligation will be bigger and better than the Fuel Poverty and energy efficiency schemes that came before it. Why, therefore, could up to 60% of ECO funding end up going to people who can already afford to improve their homes, and not to those in fuel poverty?
A household is said to be in fuel poverty when its members cannot afford to keep adequately warm at reasonable cost, given their income.
A household is said to be in fuel poverty when its members cannot afford to keep adequately warm at reasonable cost, given their income.
